The Implications of the Presidential Election: Clare Boothe Luce

now the songwriter those a week he waited a long time for this happy event but we might welcome as our guest of honor one of america's and the world's most distinguished and accomplished women presenting or this audience is a rich to walk the occasion rather than a necessary and production her varied and spectacular career and her fresh and unique contribution to the texture and the perception of our day are known and appreciated by all of us in the sense that there was once the concept called a renaissance man there is now a corresponding idea of the

twentieth century woman and clare boothe luce is her bottom with then they respect the roar man and woman in relation to an era of similarities between late fifteen and the twentieth centuries are sharp europe woke from a proper of the middle ages intelligent man rediscovered the world around them human knowledge bridge and they began discovering the earth and the joy and fervor of living and learning here and now and a few giants succeeded in encompassing all feels of knowledge in one single light classical scholar writer august scientists bateman and soldier we have to remind ourselves that even an advance america the emancipation of women was still in progress after world war

war and that young where both in her teens was a vigorous fighter for equal rights for women including the violent in the early nineteen hundreds or to sell for a way that say i first knew over as associate and then not managing editor all vanity fair they are more the magazine for young writers and the growing band of sophisticated the nineteen twenties a few of whom are in the audience tonight she burst upon us as a full blown artist and those of graham and crying years of the nineteen hundreds thirties with her brilliant sector it'll play the women followed by the way in pressley of successful performances all kids' stories goodbye and margin for error or after those

notable triumph it was more a question of equal rights for men many of you will remember a new revelation over father forgives they are sensitive perceptive and moving comments on europe at the beginning of world war two europe and spread your member that since that time through her pan and by direct action on the world stage as correspondent for life time fortune and i might add sports illustrated about the world as a member of the united states congress as ambassador to italy he has played a prominent role any one of these activities could fill up the life of an ordinary woman as loose as don them all in stride and with distinction in the spirit and scope

of a modern renaissance woman not really observing a participant greeting an exciting era in human experience with your acceptance and on fighting just for why she now takes a look november thirty and her husband and now become her eager listeners as she speaks to us on the implications of the presidential election is why our present selves the pope now mr bart

doc capture with this is that this english yes members of the economic job and their wives a friend after that most generous introduction i could hardly wait to hear what i'm going to say i know when i had set that you will not be heard to disappoint them are so serious you were kind enough after nato has prevented me from being with you in the spring to ask me again iran back flap it and very happy to be with you this the ladies and gentlemen the most obvious implication of the presidential election is that they're all whale of a lot more

democrats than republicans so many mr in fact now faced with a virtual lockdown party in dublin today many thought both democrats know that's republicans are finding that implication is somewhat along is one party rule consonant with the principles on which the nation was founded were protracted democratic rule and in dictatorship or was it probably would be called india banned democratic senators and so the kind permission i am going to talk tonight about the future of the two party system and that means of course

about the future of the republican party relax i'm not going to discuss but there's it seems important to me to get the subject carefully planned angeles times author this particle perspective now you are all familiar where that delightful lot of the logic both creature of the late robert then she's imagination that to break the habit in this curious david i was still flying back because he could not tell where i was going and talented seeing way it had been this isn't and not altogether at a logical happen so tonight if you rode from it i would play it fall from scholarly to bury i'm going back and see where the two fifth and as

being in the hope that by doing so we may find some clue to where it is going the two party system as frequently been called the genius of american democracy not that joe it is a genius that the founding fathers themselves seem quite the other way around the constitution has nothing to say about political parties all the two party system dogs washington was unanimously elected in the electoral college along with most of the founding fathers he viewed party factions as he called them as dangerous and divisive european notions our first president was the last breath of the hold that view

because it had been outlined a two party system began to a marriage even don't follow washington retired now in a conflict a basic political ideas drifting washington is true of almost cabinet members thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton as you know soon produced jefferson's a republican party of states' rights agrarian based partly in hamiltons american power base their owners whose concept was one of stronger powers for the chief executive but when jefferson won in making one good arm the genius of the two party system at once began to manifest felt political

basis and then give this has resulted in a political synthesis and the winning party immediate claim began to appropriate as long as the issues of the losing party douglas and was elected as the champion arbitrary an interest send week executive power within a few years he had adopted a good man a federalist ideas especially those which came in the policies which he soon saul were necessary to develop the young nation's resources and this enabled him in passing to make the isle louisiana purchase which incidentally accounts for about instead of the area of the continental united states as we now know now the upshot of jefferson's parties capture of the federalist the issues why didn't saddam

are more federalist parties and the first guy to federalize out of a meaningful issue was reduced it first to need to listen and then the florida opposition proposition state and it finally pete about jefferson's virginia dynasty in july one party rule for quarter of a century but it didn't end in dictatorship because this nation was founded in freedom thanks to article one the bill of rights which guarantees free speech when or not or as you americans it produced another point now i think we would do well to remember tonight the party and say that you're not creating issue

is issue is create parties and leaders these are those who are the bad guys and politically embrace the actions that ensure that created the white bark and eighteen twenty four was believe it or not so neglected old states writes poems that would have once again become relevant as americans spread rapidly into the west and new states were four this cross party migration of basic political ideas their expiration and they a renaissance in new formulations as new conditions that they are wonderfully recess then phenomenon in our two party system the last election provided a

fascinating example of this we witnessed the republican candidate as passing the hundred and sixty year old states' rights well the democratic candidate and spouse be equally old hamiltonian concepts so you know for decades to republicans stronger powers all the federal government but there was in the two party system as we know it began when the wide bodies although the dynamite that issue of slavery and transcendent issue fraudulent that's economic political and moral implications for our young republic republican party fifty six with the abolitionist it's crusading the issue went on to elect our lifetime way abraham lincoln as its first president

he owed his election to a three way split in the opposition any combination of all the election a new law about of three year the anti abolition party that a caller's lincoln would have defeated now this is the place to say that south american is party disunity alice phillips in national elections yeah in the full that proved recipe for this that with the election of lincoln the southern states seceded one by one and the rest as we know was written in blood brother but the long confrontation between republicans and

democrats have begun during one didn't fall yet odd that the two party system has now last that democrats have won the white house a lot when times republican thinks in terms of the white house occupation so you might as well they yourselves it will take fine mooc presidential terms for the democrats to catch up with the republic karen tenenbaum has not been the rule in the two party system from the election and lincoln until franklin roosevelt triumph in the ad to the republican party was clearly dominant during seventy two years only two democratic administrations made the gray well cleveland in the last century and woodrow wilson in this

then and although each served two terms each during one firm was a minority president who are owed his election to yet in the republican party not a lot of accountability maybe those of you who are republicans while lyndon johnson the sixty one point won the popular vote and franklin roosevelt sixty point eight i've never been the top republicans have also had their landslide warren harding reagan's re sixty point for general eisenhower fifty eight percent of the balance of their fellow citizens andrew chiat those abused man may have been senator barry goldwater a number of major parties in this candidates in this election in this century trump followers still lacking these anecdotal

in nineteen twelve republican column not a pathetic twenty four percent of the vote in nineteen twenty democrat james cox received a humiliating thirty six percent and allowed in the wiz the lamenting in democratic ranks when four years later this part up with this thing that and universally admired john w davis von that only a measurable rainfall percent bobby is posted this is judged him up and up in the affairs of the nation now that is that's what back is permitted the republican party to actuate it felt so long in power what that is brought about it downfall after seventy two year also what fact

is that the democratic party in existence during the fact he is of republican nomination we needn't be surprised if we also find that the same back let's have operated since nineteen thirty two to keep the democrats in the ascendance a while also keeping republicans in that this aren't we can speculate whether the same factors were brought about the downfall of the republican party may not one day sooner or later two democratic nomination during all the periods of one party domination the essential that these are what i called a potent political process the foreign press each of the presidency the

personality of the president not a packed in it the power of the press and the persistence are polling happen but first let me speak to a separate but related fact the predisposition to pragmatism of the american people for many reasons that a mandate five generations of americans the american people more than any western people are interested in intellectual political theorizing and speculation the average american excess the political climate didn't stop touring of the democracy in which he lives as almost natural phenomenon something like the weather or the landscape this is especially true in the area of foreign policy the man in the street for example speaks

the wall coming to america as he might speak of are playing no spiking our show in nineteen forty while he had his doubts about lengthy stop grieve why he had his doubts about lend lease as a peace mission you notice all the relationship between a reward sino japanese policies and what happened to pearl harbor and here is a new law president is keeping that we use when that it has not actively engaged in putting the boys on the chance for the average about it as well well yes and or by what sophisticated services like yourself what he called the political dialogue in this world

most of today's complex foreign and domestic problem and shall we say when even the government is talking of being the nation's problems of the computers in the whole of pouring out otherwise matt videos the solution i believe to date we must all accept the fact that only those issues that plants that the voters opted for quote physical welfare insecurity of this band or clever rouses a motion a point we'll touch on later can influence his will when he walks into the polling the question he asks here's the heart i know in person and then there's forensic do i feel i owe to bethel or worse for myself if i vote for the other fellow and this brings this it

wants to do most potent be in the perpetuation of poppy in other party in peace and prosperity not doing that less than they many fair minded citizens to offer a bike to democratic tv spot where one showed a pair of roughness mailman stirring up a social security check the other show that harriet head little girl innocently engaged in talking at those things and she follows the compound at all the mushroom cloud incinerate these brutal acts were an aide and that any average voter laugh at these doing ok and johnson might happen to theo then he would do that and the goal or not coming from the

park keep charge against the republican candidate was the old that daddy all within five the issue as political dialogue these ads or hypocritical if not content but they didn't demonstrate that the two most effective thought that can be made a day in the presidential campaign either the opposition wanted to lead the spy prosperity a concept now it rabbit really we can only on social security on welfare nations of course the republican candidate and we support a lot of the same a chart at the administration makes an explicitly predict that i present administration policies are pursued we would wind up in a big war or a ruinous right now when they hear the pause and the press the have the presidency

they just they have this whole century show all is that not even the very real threat of law and laid down that presidential incumbent during an election race that's almost didn't possible for the opposition to get on the east side of a president this was grown by woodrow wilson's too proud to fight campaign in nineteen sixteen and ryan the odds mothers and all those of america i promise to again and again and again campaign of nineteen forty secondly the president's power over the people's imagination is hold on their loyalty always great and ran when the wool clouds begin to something they can prove saw then to mock me a president get going on the injunction not just lop off thin mints thing doesn't always make sense

or britain would never have had its genteel but right now romney in this century in this nuclear age the american culture has always though maybe not as they show that when walk comes this necessarily to the postmortem the other dominant topic prime conditions their thoughts are that the war should be one post war prosperity maintain the republican party has survived the civil war the spanish american war the democrats didn't survive war world war one but this was followed by a sharp sharp recession and also the country were still normative republican in nineteen twenty the gop bounced back with hawking in at the roosevelt administration in the truman administration

survived world war two and a great wave of prosperity and also after that though that want him fired democratic administration the nation had become nominee democrat i'd venture to say that the democratic party would have survived korea and fifty two but for the virus and the political personality of an almost john and a figure fast as the no i said that the republican party at this seventy two years the nomination guard and survived the great depression seventy two year old rep on the electorate collapse when the so called were bread lines began to fall all that did not create the depression it was worldwide on a pragmatic electorate held him responsible for its dome as the

rapper ravages and a few are another prickly purple be a top how the republic here it may be a very useful to us to remember that after world war one the democrats have become very much of a meat to talk during roosevelt's ninety two campaign you didn't talk with the people the welfare state programs we now think of as the new deal rose of the campaign on promises to do along the same all republican line is campaign program was fiscal responsibility economy and government that sound dollar cut back in bureaucracy no foreign entanglement hand if you isolate today we like to say that franklin roosevelt's thirty

two campaign program as being well to the right of center to go by was elected fdr was quick to recognize that social security and welfare measures the protection of labor while the learning new issues created by one night the industrialization of ossified family is in problems patients are dealing with the emergency of the depression roosevelt and found and lasting solutions to these new problem it's thirty six landslide ushered in what mean we must now accept as the iraq democratic rule not yet some of you may be asking why a political pragmatism is the average of most just that guide all why did the republicans vote by after thirty six why did have the odd

get only city by day of the vote or any other learning it and appoint a speck switzerland where they all as many of the democrats are democrats of roosevelt's heroics shots were they all it's the most of the economic right people croix and different to the misery caused by the depression now part of the answer as all practical politicians no lie is a key in that fellow them remark that in the story of the two major parties the first fifth and from falling back or another word that talk a lot by the starring paul mann was asked why he

voted against the er in nineteen thirty two and replied to cause my father was a republic is rendered jotted lessons opposing our father had been a fool would you will be helpful to many said no i'd be a democrat now voting habits originally formed in times of critical issues often deeply rooted at the same time an ethnic religious cultural fast even geographical loyalties that's from generation to generation to create aha call in each party on republicans and poland democrat the visceral voters family leave the party of their birth in any significant numbers except in times of great national the people the most important example we allow voting habits are on

big change it's offered by the negro vote in a growing franchise by the republican party remain loyal to the party of old age or sad and eight tony the banks which began in the thirties when who feel well their letters gave them a growing as fast rates of economic equality with the white man albeit only at survival level from then nominate roble move steadily into the party of fdr despite the many civil rights measures taken by the eisenhower administration in nineteen sixty nixon received less than twenty five percent of the negro vote on the late president

kennedy as a spousal of the negro revolt bond buying is a fascination with olive gave the negro i knew abe lincoln in those who want to be the last of the negro vote in the last election in iowa that the republican candidates stand on civil rights should be reminded that by nineteen sixty three also be a vote for a show that from eighty five percent that ninety percent of all made rosewood vote democratic in nineteen sixty four re got this up who the republicans nominate now in the new york senatorial write this by keeping the long years of genuine devotion visible right on his introduction of many measures a benefit to his negro constituents despite this repudiation of the republican candidate

getting received only can present that when the robo and how you so well know no office so that in any state in the union has opened mile upon me to the negro his economic and social conditions and done more about it than michigan's own governor romney now dance even many receiving only eighteen percent of the negro vote unless the republican party now intent to capture the negro revolution from the democrat making than the growth economic and social a dance prine who's saying issue the bulk of the negro in sure to stay in the democratic camp for the forseeable future and there are like a lot of well it will grow rapidly life or the

polling that come by with me population it's both tear is to increase this guy up the democratic party i almost fanatical rogue action by nineteen sixty they're already twenty million more registered democrats than republicans here again fallout have a consolation that maybe the goldwater voted on voters said they showed their last spring that the preponderance of normal democratic thing probably hear president johnson died again no matter who the republican nominee and the latest census figures show that they're being ninety million maude oh look for fifty eight and that fact got a family family expected to

vote democrat but paradoxically the irrational habit of voting the parental think it also helps to preserve the two audiences that was prevented the proliferation of spring the audience and so it has prevented one party rule the democrat a hard call for example help keep the silence our solemn and the anti urban ethnic groups the irish thoughts do the italians are locked in the democratic camp during the party's seventy too lenient and i have that again the bottom of the bowl on republican vote president johnson would have captured eighty percent at least probably a lot of about the republican nevada goal may well i've saved the two

bodies their skin from virtual annihilation now i do not intend to say that the hard call as it existed in both parties is entirely owned by a rational party loyalty it also represents a compliment though conscious devotion to traditional party id of the old liberalism of the northern grover cleveland now smith democrat it's the old precedent in the hot color of the egg and democratic vote on the state's rights concept is still present in the hard core of the democratic party in the south although the size of that law has now been whittled down but backlash defections on to the republican candidate but has been whittled down even more while growing awareness in the cell that is a way of solving the negro

problem the state's rights and that is to say the hard core of the republican vote still reflects the parties should additional hamiltonian view of fiscal responsibility government encouragement of free enterprise and devotion to the constitution these are ideas one hopes will continue to be relevant in american palate the hard core of the law represents its although the euro do simple emotional an ideological content now those who seek to be a new leadership are no directions to a defeated political party so we have got to begin by making peaceful

compromises with its hard core elements for they are the people who not only fought off i work for the state to get input times or bad carmelo five while they are the bedrock on which a beaten party has blocked a bill is estimated that six or eight million republicans in that they a lot of optimistic junk all those who encouraged you can do that that he was on the view that the iraq war in may law hello to the party is both do that and it so now where does this all leave earth and our discussion of the future of the two body says that the future of the two parties it's the lights in the wal mart job but can we now even as it gets the future of the

republican party the republican party as almost at its lowest that i say almost because its congressional representation it's still somewhat larger than it was roosevelt's big effects but today as their old its organizational and it's an ideological problem is now this really to match its essentially conservative hot coal into a party a wider popular the body politics we all know both ideologically an organization they are a public dimension when they're not being made overlay by name without its progressive wing the gop

can't help to prevail in many states in the you know about its conservative elements mr surely marriage throughout the nation commonsense felt that the cost of reconciliation cannot be here for the warring leaders of either of these men but not let me help and faced a real dilemma of the gop what we call that day at the mater are what are generally no man it they need to rip up they are the middle and women will have consciously or unconsciously accepted that fact that all contemporary issues have been preempted by the democrat like the federalist after jefferson's gap to

capture their vacations in the early part of the last century the bass that the meat to republicans can go on until new issues and there is talk and stop them criticism of the administration's policies are and over the worst they can do is to oppose them or are positions that in either of that they are little more than friendly or disagreeable on which at all costs they say they sing to be you or i have only as we have noted already had our little hear you very polite meet know popping there is just no substitute impala or get a nap fosters with them that's that's it is issued

programs fall of the voters who preferred joy and not an actor what is the last election demonstrated that joyce however valley must be acceptable to the majority of the vote shouted except to vote so i think that the choices they know the near future of the republican party now depend on the success or the failure of the present administration of one thing we can all be sure and he is the head everything is not coming up roses for the administration many of you yeah interest group are far more knowledgeable than i know about the more ambiguous and contradictory aspects of our necks the county on the

european debt and that the fiscal policies on some of the labor policies that six democratic administrations have already made up and now there's no doubt that in the dark fly what is a foreign policy this administration has yet to prove it and say oh save or genus of appeasement and the chevron tests of nuclear war if president johnson fails to maintain peace and prosperity economy too party can come back on a wave of hope that as the democrats gave in nineteen eighty two providing a cost that it has not meanwhile further repeats itself up by party or

by the president jonathan thieves and maintaining peace and prosperity the democrats will most certainly if they involve now of americans with a lot of open pray that he will succeed for peace and prosperity are as precious to us all as they are but neither of them so much as been so far a two party system that the party out especially after trashing fifty soon sets about going away and cry the paths in their lives for themselves is to evaluate know it is re evaluate all the way the one that hit me and your abilities audience of aviation

and diligently seek out the winning issues of morrow which all too well audie it shows that have been neglected by the cafe and pow and us throughout this day of art to poppies with the minority party as elliot feldman reading this time he can't call land the majority party for his soul and was that who is the genius of the two party system the party album how does not only for the party but for the state the

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